Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753935AbdIEWgL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:36:11 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:46046 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752834AbdIEWgJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:36:09 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 5D6EB21A19 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=luto@kernel.org X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADKCNb7geNYZYlPbUOrj4Gpdi4Un04mxoslGlwRTsVnogTAJQv3vgk2fh7eHajGNSxgVpJWTOKjID18PnRSmETAOp3o= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20170904093158.k6pg3ytcbotjlhv5@gmail.com> <20170905214046.ishenhbj7jrtoufc@gmail.com> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 15:35:48 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/mm changes for v4.14: PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 28 On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> I have bisected a bit deeper, and the pcid code is definitely in that >> bisection window still. But are a fair number of other commits (about >> 160 right now) > > Now down to 18. > > And one of those 18 is commit 10af6235e0d3 ("x86/mm: Implement PCID > based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID"), > which I guess is where the problem might actually start showing up if > it is pcid. > > I'll continue to bisect rather than just test "nopcid", because I want > to get that bisection result regardless. The thing that would surprise me about this is that I dogfooded my PCID tree on my XPS 13 9250 for quite a while and it worked just fine. Maybe something got merged oddly or had an unpleasant interaction somewhere? Anyway, all two cores of that fancy Skylake are compiling your tree as we speak :). It'll finish eventually. --Andy